BLUE GLASS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 23

BLUE GLASS AGAIN

This is the day of coloured glass, and they are as beautiful blues as ever there were. Not only has the very I deep blue glass been revived, of which a few touches give character to a room, but a great deal in paler shade j is being used for dinner glasses, fruit salads, and' so forth. This is almost exactly the colour of twelfth-century window glass, as opposed to the deeper tone of the following hundred years. It has the same jewel-like effect, especially when it is used for fruit or flowers. _ Very large vases are made of the lighter blue. Eoses look charming in them, and so do such strong colourcontrasts as petunias and geraniums. For fruit salads; blue glass generally has 'a stem," and then a wide, shallow j cup like that of a champagne glass. Filled ' with' fruit,', of which some at least must be reds, these again recall

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the stained' glass windok, with its touches of bright blues and red. Finally, blue glass is freely used for toilette sets, sometimes in a blue which is nearly, but not quite, navy, and sometimes in the paler tone. Now and again it is engraved with a smaller device in gold which may take the form of initials.